“ Californians throw away 6 pounds of trash every day, equivalent to almost 2200 pounds every year, roughly the weight of a car. ” —— CALPIRG
According to the resource, during the past decade, the annual tonnage of post-recycled municipal solid waste being placed in California’s landfills has increased by almost 50%, and since 2014, its recycling rate has declined from 50% in 2014 to 40%. In addition, more and more countries are banning the United States from exporting solid waste to them because of pollution concerns. Even though the waste problem is getting worse, people still don’t care about it. In order to understand where those waste “going”, I decided to analyze the waste disposal processes and landfills in California counties. Attempts to find out whether each county has sufficient landfills for energy regeneration and whether additional landfills are needed to reduce resource waste from garbage transportation. Finally, the interactive map of regional waste disposal and energy regeneration capacity is created based on California landfill electricity regeneration data.
